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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770--1850)

HISTORICAL FAME William Wordsworth(1770-1850),British poet,credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movem with the publication of (1798)in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

HISTORICAL FAME • William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of Lyrical Ballads(1798) in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

ENGLISH ROMANTICISM A modern term applied to the profound shift in Western attitudes to art and Human creativity.It dominated much of European culture in the first half of The 19th century.It emerged in the 1790s in Germany and Britain and in the 1820s in France and elsewhere.Its chief emphasis was on freedom of Individual self-expression:sincerity,spontane,and.The Romantics turned to the emotional directness of and to the boundlessness of and aspiration.English Romanticism emerged with William Wordsworth's 1800 Preface to Lyrical Ballads

ENGLISH ROMANTICISM A modern term applied to the profound shift in Western attitudes to art and Human creativity. It dominated much of European culture in the first half of The 19th century. It emerged in the 1790s in Germany and Britain and in the 1820s in France and elsewhere. Its chief emphasis was on freedom of Individual self-expression: sincerity, spontaneity, and originality. The Romantics turned to the emotional directness of personal experience and to the boundlessness of individual imagination and aspiration. English Romanticism emerged with William Wordsworth’s 1800 Preface to Lyrical Ballads

EARLY LIFE William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland,in the Lake District.His father was John Wordsworth, Sir James Lowther's attorney.The magnificent deeply affected Wordsworth's imagination and gave him a love of. He lost his mother when he was eight and five years later his father. The domestic problems separated Wordsworth from his beloved and neurotic sister Dorothy,who was a very important person in his life

EARLY LIFE • William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District. His father was John Wordsworth, Sir James Lowther's attorney. The magnificent landscape deeply affected Wordsworth's imagination and gave him a love of nature. He lost his mother when he was eight and five years later his father. The domestic problems separated Wordsworth from his beloved and neurotic sister Dorothy, who was a very important person in his life

EDUCATION With the help of his two uncles,Wordsworth entered a local school and continued his studies at Camb. Wordsworth made his debu as a writer in 1787,when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine.In that same year he entered St.John's College,Cambridge,from where he took his B.A.in1791

EDUCATION • With the help of his two uncles, Wordsworth entered a local school and continued his studies at Cambridge University. Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787, when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine . In that same year he entered St. John's College, Cambridge, from where he took his B.A. in 1791

LOVE IN FRANCE During a summer vacation in 1790 Wordsworth went on a walking tour through revolutionary France and also traveled in Switzerland. On his secondourney in France,Wordsworth had an with a French girl,Annette Vallon,a daughter of a barber-surgeon,by whom he had a Anne Caroline.The affair was basis of the poem "Vaudracour and Julia",but otherwise Wordsworth did his best to hide the affair from posterity

LOVE IN FRANCE • During a summer vacation in 1790 Wordsworth went on a walking tour through revolutionary France and also traveled in Switzerland. On his second journey in France, Wordsworth had an affair with a French girl, Annette Vallon, a daughter of a barber-surgeon, by whom he had a illegitimate daughter Anne Caroline. The affair was basis of the poem "Vaudracour and Julia" , but otherwise Wordsworth did his best to hide the affair from posterity

INFLUENCE FROM COLERIDGE In 1795 he met Coleridge.Wordsworth's financial situation became better in 1795 when he received a egacy and was able to settle at Racedown,Dorset, sister Dorothy. Encouraged by Coleridge and stimulated by the close contact with, Wordsworth composed his first masterwork,Lyrical Ballads,which opened with Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner."About 1798 he started to write a large and philosophical autobiographical poem,completed in 1805,and published posthumously in 1850 under the title The Prelude. Wordsworth spent the winter of 1798-99 in Germany, where he wrote several poems,including the enigmatic 'Lucy'poems.After return he moved to Dove Cottage,Grasmere,and in 1802 married Mary Hutchinson. They cared for Wordsworth's sister Dorothy for the last 20 years of her life

INFLUENCE FROM COLERIDGE • In 1795 he met Coleridge. Wordsworth's financial situation became better in 1795 when he received a legacy and was able to settle at Racedown, Dorset, with his sister Dorothy. Encouraged by Coleridge and stimulated by the close contact with nature, Wordsworth composed his first masterwork, Lyrical Ballads, which opened with Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner." About 1798 he started to write a large and philosophical autobiographical poem, completed in 1805, and published posthumously in 1850 under the title The Prelude. • Wordsworth spent the winter of 1798-99 with his sister and Coleridge in Germany, where he wrote several poems, including the enigmatic 'Lucy' poems. After return he moved to Dove Cottage, Grasmere, and in 1802 married Mary Hutchinson. They cared for Wordsworth's sister Dorothy for the last 20 years of her life

FADING LIFE AND FADING FAME Wordsworth's second verse collection,Poems,In Two Volumes,appeared in 1807.Wordsworth's central works were produced beween 1808.His poems written during middle and late years have not gained similar critical approval.Wordsworth's Grasmere period ended in 1813. He was appointed official distributor of stamps for Westmoreland.He moved to Rydal Mount,Ambleside,where he spent the rest of his life.In later life Wordsworth abandoned his radical ideas and became a patriotic, conservative public man. In 1843 he(1774-1843)as England's poet Wordsworth died on April 23,1850

FADING LIFE AND FADING FAME • Wordsworth's second verse collection, Poems, In Two Volumes, appeared in 1807. Wordsworth's central works were produced between 1797 and 1808. His poems written during middle and late years have not gained similar critical approval. Wordsworth's Grasmere period ended in 1813. He was appointed official distributor of stamps for Westmoreland. He moved to Rydal Mount, Ambleside, where he spent the rest of his life. In later life Wordsworth abandoned his radical ideas and became a patriotic, conservative public man. • In 1843 he succeeded Robert Southey (1774-1843) as England's poet laureate. Wordsworth died on April 23, 1850

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